Mary Meeker wants AI and higher education to be partners

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The famed Internet analyst-turned-VC has written her first report in over three years

Share on linkedin Photo Illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios. Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Vanity Fairin over four years, focused on the relationship between artificial intelligence and U.S. higher education.Meeker's annual "Internet Trends" reports were among Silicon Valley's most cited and consumed documents.

Meeker's new effort is a shorter attempt at reconciling tech's brave new world and America's economic vitality, with higher ed as the connective tissue.Meeker argues that the U.S. has wrested the AI lead from China, and that key to staying ahead is for tech and universities to treat each other as partners, rather than as obstacles.

For higher ed, it means a "mindset change" whereby teachers act more like coaches and students are viewed as customers."What we do in the next couple of years is going to be very consequential," Meeker tells me. "High ed for years as been the bastion of momentum in tech and change. For example, where would we be with the internet but for Stanford and MIT? But a lot of that was government-funded, and now is more industry-funded.

 

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